Creative Nomad Zen Xtra 60 GB MP3 Jukebox | 
 enlarge | Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
List Price: $299.99
Buy Used: $229.00
You Save: $70.99 (24%)
Used (4) from $229.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 24142
Color: Anodized aluminum
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Battery: 1 Rechargeable Li-ion
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 13 x 8 x 3
MPN: 70PD055000001
Model: 70PD055000001
UPC: 054651062740
EAN: 0054651062740
ASIN: B0000EW9M8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 60 GB storage lets you bring up to 16,000 WMA songs (80 kbps) or MP3 songs (128 kbps) everywhere you go | | • | Use AudioSync to synchronize your music on your player with your PC at work, school and home or on the road | | • | Load a song a second with ultra fast USB 2.0 port, compatible with USB 1.1 too | | • | Removable, high-capacity Li-ion battery -- up to 14 hrs continuous playback per charge | | • | Compatible with Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Me, 2000, and XP |
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Product Description
Featuring a large, hi-res, blue backlit LCD, the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra builds on the industry-leading music features of the NOMAD Jukebox Zen product line. Simply transfer all your music into the player with Creative MediaSource or the new NOMAD Explorer using ultra fast USB2.0, press the play button and get set to enjoy high-fidelity music. With advanced features such as Quick Scroller Navigation, Find, Playlist Creation and automatic ID3 tag categorization, managing and organizing your music will be a breeze.And the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra doubles up as an external hard drive for storing all your photos, documents and other data files. Simply open NOMAD Explorer (integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer) and drag and drop data files into the data folder or music files into the music library.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 116 more reviews...
 Creative Nomad Zen Xtra August 7, 2007
I just received this MP3 player and I am very pleased with the performance of the player. There is only one item I would have a complaint is that the battery is not very large and because of that the player is not very effiecient if you are uploading music to the player from the computer. You need to keep the player plugged in when you do this process.
There have been a lot of complaints on the Creative Organizer here. I personally do not feel that there is anything hard about using it. A little experimentation with file ripping will tell you what settings you need to make to properly file your MP3's. There is other organizers for the player. Notmad is one that comes to mind.
Either way the player is wonderful and with 60gb you can carry quite a selection of music or audio books.
 Buggy to the end July 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This player demonstrated software bugs through its life, often refusing to transfer files to and from the player. Now, only 2 years after purchase, it has reverted to booting up to recovery mode only. Contacts with Creative customer service inform me that since it is out of warranty, I can pay them $28/hr to communicate with me on the issue with no guarantee that they'll actually fix it. Of course, long distance charges may apply. No thanks.
not what i thought ! May 16, 2007
The player has a great sound quality and support many music formats but lacks of many many things:
* Bulky
* The Dial is not comfortably placed and not easy to use
* cannot be detected as a mass storage device like Ipod for data storage. it needs a peacial software to see it in "my computer". and that means you have to carry the CD with you all the time if you intend to go around with it (data traveling) yet you still cannot use it as a hard disk. it operates as a storage device. it means if you want to open a file stored on it, you have to transfer it back to your pc. (The worst of all)
* Not durable at all. it fell down from my bed to the ground and it was in its protecting pouch and the internal hard disk is damaged !!! all my data all my music library all my life, gone with the wind. some few players out there like some HD5 senses the fall and immediately takes the head off the disk to keep it safe and protect the data from harm.
* no good support from creative.
* lack of accessories. The cover suffer from scratches and wanted to replace it. guess what !! No covers sold separately !
*** the good thing about it, is that the internal hard disk is a 2.5" HDD (laptop HDD). in another words, you can replace it with a new one or even a bigger space one if you want. in my case i changed the damaged 60GB HDD with a new 80GB HDD and waaalllaaaa ... i have a new MP3 player.
 Bang for the Buck September 5, 2006
I have had the 60 GB zen Xtra for almost 2 years now, and I have no complaints about the sound quality or performance of this player. It is small enough to take jogging provided you have a pocket to stow it in. The only performance issues I've ever noticed is that the player will sometimes reboot itself while you're running. I'm still not sure what caused this, but it hasn't happened for over 6 months and I use the player heavily in this respect, 4-5 times a week, 40-45 minutes at a time. I have yet to fill up the hard drive, and even if I do I doubt I'll ever need another player until I move to a better format than MP3/WMA.
Where I was having problems was the interface between the Zen Xtra and the PC. The supplied Creative software is just plain buggy when it came to playlist handling and just not very user friendly, to put it mildly. I purchased the Notmad explorer, and while this was an interesting stopgap, it too required excessive manipulation to get the music I wanted.
A few months ago, however, Creative released a firmware update to transform the Zen Xtra into an "MTP" or "Plays for Sure" device. This is exactly what I needed as I am now able to use it with my favorite free media player, Media Monkey. The player is synchronized to the playlists, albums, artists, etc that I choose without intervention on my part, and it will even fill the player up to its capacity with a random subset of my MP3 collection, with higher priority given to higher rated songs. Needless to say, I never have to listen to the same thing twice.
So, MediaMonkey + Zen Xtra = Huge Bang for the Buck
GREAT PLAYER EASY 5 STARS..... August 26, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This by far is the best thing ive purchased in a while.Ive had it for over a year now and have about 12,000 songs,that's about 927 cd's and never had a problem,in fact ive dropped it about five times on solid ground, do you think it broke, nope runs perfectly..im thinking of buying another one just to have an extra one.This thing is so easy to use too, people must be pretty stupid. well you have my review,5 easy stars.....
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